Sponsor Deadlines: May 31, 2021; August 31, 2021; November 30, 2021; February 28, 2022
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Application budget requests should rarely exceed $100,000 in direct costs per year. The supplement project period must not exceed two years.
This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) announces the availability of administrative supplements to support the dissemination of promising technologies and resources generated from active Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative awards, to foster collaborations between innovators and new end-user laboratories, and ultimately integrate such innovations into neuroscience research practice. This NOSI will support small dissemination efforts for which a clear value to the identified user group is demonstrated in the application. The proposed work must be within the scope of the original project of the eligible parent award but beyond the original dissemination plans included in the parent application. Proposed techniques, resources, or approaches must be at a stage wherein the potential for a broader impact on research has been identified. To that end, applicants must include information about the laboratories/users to whom they plan to disseminate the resource, including the protocols that users are expected to execute. The number of users identified should be appropriate for the type of resource being disseminated and the stage of development but should be greater than one person/laboratory.
Proposals may include dissemination to users beyond the current BRAIN community, as well as other BRAIN awardees. Applicants are encouraged to consider the importance of diversity in the context of their dissemination efforts such as collaborating with investigators/institutions that are eligible for REAP or AREA grants or are located in IDeA-eligible states. Projects proposing the dissemination of technologies/resources with commercial potential (i.e., SBIR/STTR grants) are allowed but the projects funded under this supplement should provide the end users with the technology or resource at no cost.
Applications for this initiative must be submitted using the following opportunity or its subsequent reissued equivalent: PA-20-272 - Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Parent Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional).